Live game-day chat at 11:30 today

Last game of 2011 tonight, and first game-day chat of 2011 today. (and last game-day chat of 2011 today).

So get your questions and comments ready, because those in early will have a much better chance of being answered. Also, please use a screen name or a real name or some name when you make a comment or ask a question. It just makes it easier for me.

We can talk about the five-game winning streak, the one-game losing streak, the game tonight, the Hyper Bowl on Monday, “24/7”, the disgraceful, disgusting lighting of two sides of the Empire State Building right in the middle of New York freakin’ City in Flyers orange crud, Sean Avery, John Tortorella, whatever.

We’ll go for 45 minutes or an hour and get to as many of your topics as possible.

I didn’t notice Avery there (in any of the footage), and it seems that Cally having his sunglasses ‘on’ indoors may have been a knock at Avery, although who knows. What I do know is that Mister Boyle better lay off the sauce and start scoring some goals, wtb, dude?

And for those of you who voted for Gaborik…come on. It’s Callahan or Girardi. A guy like Gaborik will never be appreciated on a team like this. He’s a very gifted player but this team is about grit, pain and hard work. Gaborik makes it look too effortless.

Carp: I can’t make the live chat – can you answer my question though: How long will it take my wife-to-be to leave me?

Manny are you kidding me ? :) the Lady is responsible for my Recovery and i thought it would Be a Nice idea to greet her in this Specific Way! First i thought about Sending Someone from the RR to the AirPort to Welcome her to present a Gift from me:)

Avery was at the party. You could see him in the background in one of the shots.

Also, how about Jagr? 31 points in 32 games so far this year. I remember a bunch of people around here didn’t want him back, but considering the only reason he didn’t stay is because the Rangers wanted to have Scott Gomez as the highest paid player on the team, it was pretty embarassing.

What’s Scotty doing this year other than dipping chew and taking shots from the goal line? Oh, that’s right. Absolutely nothing.

There can never be enough, Buff! I am legally married in that my wife-to-be and I have had a civil ceremony at city hall. Tomorrow we are having a real ceremony. My poor wife marrying me, just some English Pig with no brain.

Wedding is New Year’s Eve, Sally. It’s at a little place you might have heard of called the 35th Precinct! Join us Boneheads!

Being cute again LW? I mean, I know I can’t say anything cause you can do whatever you want to me, Carp even said so. Unless you’ve kidnapped his pets, like he said.
Then we’d be on even footing I guess.

But be serious a second; use your noodle. is Ryan a franchise guy? No. 2 overall?
What about Jeff Carter, 11th overall, a former 46-goal scorer? We could quibble about exactly what that phrase means, franchise guy and all. But let’ say big-time players.

You should know a few more already, they’ve been in the news more than enough, though you may have been busy polishing your comedy routine.

Oh Rod, loves to come on here with what he’s been “hearing” or more like reading right off of twitter or Pierre Lebrun’s cross check blog. Then when you call him out for it, he starts with the childish comments or threats. Makes me laugh every time. I’ve been hearing too that a last place with several upcoming UFA’s might be looking to trade some of their guys off to get something back. Real deep inside there.

Whether they’ve been buyers or sellers over the years, the Carolina Hurricanes have usually been an active team ahead of the trade deadline and often much before the actual deadline day.
And they have five pending UFAs on their roster who could be in play: defensemen Tim Gleason, Bryan Allen and Jaroslav Spacek as well as forwards Tuomo Ruutu and Alexei Ponikarovsky.
Here’s the catch for the Hurricanes right now, however: They can’t just go ahead with straight-up salary dumps in January in any trade because it risks moving them below the payroll floor. According to capgeek.com, the Canes are at $51.4 million in payroll with the league’s floor set at $48.3 million this year. Any deal they make in the short term has to be more of a hockey deal. Instead of just getting a draft pick or a prospect in return, they’ll need to get an NHL roster player back.
If they decide to wait right up until the Feb. 27 trade deadline, by then the cap hit (and payroll hit) should be minimized, so they can go ahead and make any kind of deal they want.
Lots of teams, as always, will be looking for defensemen, so veteran Canes GM Jim Rutherford will be a popular phone call with his colleagues around the league.

You really got that inside info. like every other not credentialed blogger in the World.

Sally: Here’s a name for you nostalgia fans: Clarence “Screaming Buffalo” Swamptown. I’ll never forget an exclusive interview in which Swamptown revealed that he calls his hockey stick the “Big Tomahawk,” and he usually refers to the opposing players as “the little scalps”.

Manny so i wish you a wonderful Event with a Lot of boneheads in attendance ! I Wrote an Email in the Interim to MSG explaining them my Case asking for displaying a Personal Message during the Game against the Panthers. It would Be wonderful if they would do it :) i have stated you Guys and Carp in the email thats a true Story which is very true.. But the Chat Starts now

Manny – No he’s mad because he like other Internet bloggers with no actual sources doesn’t like to be called out for using actual people in the business stuff. It’s the twitter problem. These guys give out their good stuff on twitter and then a bunch of guys who have never seen an NHL locker room act like they found something out.

Twitter really has changed everything, eh? No more, news in the morning. Guys sitting on things at night or giving an exclusive scoop to a writer. It’s just tweet and re-tweet. Problem is, I don’t really understand twitter.

Rod – in all seriousness, find any post where I’ve been abusive, aggressive, whatever to you (or indeed anybody on here) and I’ll graciously apologise. Otherwise maybe lighten up, grow up and drop the persecution complex, OK?